McNally, 72 and with new musical “Catch Me if You Can” in previews, stepped onstage with his husband, attorney Tom Kirdahy, and saluted his father, “who had show albums and Billie Holiday records and took me to real theater.”

A sitdown dinner followed at Times Square’s Blue Fin restaurant, where Kirdahy recalled their decade together, and McNally noted, “April 9 is our first anniversary. We got married on the banks of the Potomac behind the Kennedy Center.”